Thursday, July 12, 2018

The Other Side of Brett Kavanaugh: Mentor to Women

As we talked about previously,
liberals are throwing every ridiculous charge imaginable at Brett Kavanaugh,
hoping something sticks.But while those
efforts are failing, another side of Kavanaugh is coming out.

Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s
jurisprudence will appropriately be dissected in the months ahead. I’d like to
speak to a less well-known side of the Supreme Court nominee: his role as a
mentor for young lawyers, particularly women. The qualities he exhibits with his
clerks may provide important evidence about the kind of justice he would be.

To a person, they described his extraordinary mentorship. “When I accepted his offer to clerk,” one woman wrote, “I had no idea I was signing
up for a lifelong mentor who feels an enduring sense of responsibility
for each of his clerks.” Another said: “I can’t imagine making a career
decision without his advice.” And another: “He’s been an incredible mentor to me despite the fact that I’m a
left-of-center woman. He always takes into account my goals rather than
giving generic advice.”

These days the press is full of stories about powerful men
exploiting or abusing female employees. That makes it even more striking
to hear Judge Kavanaugh’s female clerks speak of his decency and his
role as a fierce champion of their careers.

If the judge is confirmed, my daughter will probably be
looking for a different clerkship. But for my own daughter, there is no
judge I would trust more than Brett Kavanaugh to be, in one former
clerk’s words, “a teacher, advocate, and friend.”

Kavanaugh does not do
these things for attention.The Daily Caller
caught him making good on a previous obligation without fanfare or press:

But amidst the chaos of the
confirmation fight, Kavanaugh took a moment to do something incredibly human.

A passerby spotted the new
Supreme Court nominee on her way home from work Wednesday night, and sent these
pictures to The Daily Caller News Foundation. Kavanaugh was serving meals to
the homeless outside Catholic Charities in downtown Washington, less than 48
hours after he was tapped to succeed Justice Anthony Kennedy. . . .

A fellow volunteer confirmed
that the judge signed up for the event some time ago and chose to keep the
date, developments in his professional life notwithstanding.

There are more of these stories out there from those who know
him, but those who don’t will continue to cry and gnash their teeth.How bad is the other side? The satirical hastag #BrettKavanaughScandals
is out there making fun of them.The
bottom line is Brett Kavanuagh is a good person who will make a great Supreme
Court Justice.